You won’t get winded getting to your door if you’ve got ZERO steps to climb. After my last post, it occurred that I had not shown pictures of different variations of the finished product. So here’s the way a no step entrance can look if you’re attempting to achieve at least one step-free accessible route to either the front, side or rear entry. As I wrote, access via a garage is another alternative.

Notice too that gentle sloping and use of retaining walls has an aesthetic appeal, you can incorporate landscaping of all types, even raised flower or vegetable gardens and be universally designed in two regards, inclusive access plus easy gardening (e.g. tend your raised garden while seated).

As I make room for more pictures, I want to be clear that we’re not anti-ramp per se, sometimes building a ramp is the lone solution. Unfortunately, the typical builder perspective is “constructing” something so FIX = RAMP, thus deemed THE only solution. But even properly built ramps can be dangerous in foul weather and users undeniably exert more physical energy than they would otherwise navigating a non-ramp option. So to us, building a ramp is the last resort if we cannot produce in another fashion a zero step entry.

One final point, notice that a no step entrance done well is visually appealing, blends nicely and really isn’t noticeable whatsoever (like most things universally designed for the home).

Now let’s glide through the door.